14d • General discussion
Dream a New Dream
As fall approaches and the weather changes it starts to feel natural to access the year and what you have experienced, accomplished and to start to measure yourself against your hopes, wishes and dreams you may have set out to experience. This is the time we usually start to get down upon ourselves for not doing or accomplishing enough or we double down and try to squeeze something out just to mark it off a list.
We may start to feel the heaviness of a pressure or a sadness of what has yet to come into our lives. I am grateful to these feelings and have learned to embrace and allow myself to feel them without judging myself. I now know these feelings are a wakeup call that something is ready to fade away and something that ignites me is waiting to be discovered. Yet in the past when I tried to avoid these feelings or questioned if something was wrong with me I failed to see I was prolonging something I was ready to end and something that was waiting to be born within me was not given space to emerge.
I discovered this by chance on day of feeling sorry for myself, low energy, pain, and unmotivated. I took a bath and let myself just be. As I went within my mind and body took me on an awareness journey of what I no longer felt passionate about or you could say what I had experienced all that I needed to experience. Now all that was left was for me to go through that experience and find what I learned. What I liked, what I did not, what I would do the same, what I would change and do differently. To feel and find my gratitude for all I was able to participate in, the expansion and sometimes the contraction. These all are great lessons to be reviewed. I found the gratitude for people who were part of the journey. And yes even the ones who at the time irritated me or frustrated me. For I have learned that each of them have something for me to learn about myself.
I learned that we all are more alike than different in how we feel, what life requires of us and all trying to find connection, acceptance and love. I have learned to look at how I cope with all these things and to look at how others cope as well. To see underneath it all we are all hear having a human experience in a body we all have no idea exactly how it functions completely and sometimes run a muck and fall back to times we were very young and protecting ourselves. So I look at anger and yelling as a coping strategy. I look at avoidance as a coping strategy. We all have coping strategies and we all at times fall into them when pushed past our comfort zone. I now try to look to others to help me see and evaluate where I may need a reminder of my own coping strategies that do not bring connection, acceptance or a loving approach. For everyone who I get to interact with everyday thank you for being my mirror.
Some of my moments of feeling great sadness for things coming to an end have produced my greatest joy for all I have gained from it and in that moment of joy new creativity and ideas start to flood in.
Dream a New Dream is about taking time each day 5, 10, 15, minutes to sit with ourselves and instead of taking a mental inventory of our failures or lacks, we dream a new dream of ourselves. Seeing ourselves smile or laugh, feeling calm, peaceful or happy. We do not need to know the details of what will happen, we just need to take time to send our body a new program to execute.
Yes our bodies are awaiting our instructions through dreaming and feeling. Have you ever heard the new expression of you create your life through your thoughts? Much research is being done right now that keeps affirming that our bodies produce the chemicals that match our thoughts and we feel as emotions. However, they also have found that this is a closed loop system meaning feelings of the body can also produce thoughts and they can become an unbreakable loop of thought, chemical, emotion, response, thought. Ever get stuck in a loop like that where you keep rethinking a feeling something that happened that day? A conversation or an upset. This loop can go on forever unless you, yes you change your thought or your feeling.
Instead of waiting to make the change, I am putting it out there for each of us to take a few minutes every morning before we jump out of bed and get locked into our loops to tell our brain and body to create something new. Take 5 minutes to dream your day and tell your body how it will be. Then get up and hold those thoughts, feelings and images inside yourself as you get ready and let the day unfolds.
I would love to hear what your experience is and if you feel called share it here with the group.
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